Hey Self Defeater by Mark Mulcahy

Caspar David Friedrich, The Monk by the Sea, ~1809

"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences." ~ Roy Ascott via Brian Eno.

Everything you'd rather not have known about Brian Eno, Chrissie Hynde, 1974

Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998

Todd Schorr, A Pirate's Treasure Dream, 2006

"We can learn from the experience of the 1930’s. A rising tide lifts all boats; a receding one ignites a Hobbesian war of each against all." ~ Robert Skidelsky, Project Syndicate, Oct 2010

Pieter Bruegel the Elder , Avarice, 1556

""I want to be a living work of art." ~ Luisa Casati

Man Ray, La Marquise Casati, 1935

Giovanni Boldini, Luisa Casati With a Greyhound, 1908

L.S. Lowry, The Pond, 1950

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Shipwreck on Northern Sea, 1865

Died this day

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." ~ Ernest Hemingway

Memories of past adventures (July 1997).

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Born this day.

Peter Paul Rubens, Two Satyrs, 1619

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." ~ George Orwell

Rawlsian philosopher Michael Sandel on the BBC speaking about free markets and democracy.

John Rawls

Michael Sandel's famous Harvard University course on Justice. Recommended.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Seven Deadly Sins, ~1557

John Lee Hooker, It Serves me Right to Suffer

An Alan Lomax recording.

Dušan Džamonja, Monument to the Revolution, 1967